SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Becerra and Hilton Continue Leading Governor's Race Vote Count After the latest ballot count on Thursday, Hilton and Becerra remain neck and neck and Steyer still trails; voters in the North Bay continue to support the SMART train; and a new report says Super Bowl LX generated $720M in local economic activity.
SF News Prominent North Beach Eyesore, the Verdi Building, Cleared for Partial Demolition A burned-out and long-blighted property facing Washington Square Park in North Beach is finally going to see a partial demolition and redevelopment, following an appeal from a single North Beach resident.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed Prix-Fixe Restaurant Noodle In a Haystack Quietly Closes as Owners Plot Fast-Casual Venture An acclaimed Japanese prix-fixe restaurant that most of us were not lucky enough to dine at, Noodle In a Haystack, has closed, and its owners are going the fast-casual route in the hopes of finally turning a decent profit.
SF News Daly City Man Accused In at Least Two Violent Incidents Arrested for Alleged Battery of Castro Bar Doorperson A 24-year-old Daly City man has been arrested in connection with a mid-April incident in which he allegedly punched a woman who was working the door at the bar Midnight Sun in the Castro neighborhood.
SF News 27-Hour Clipper Outage In May Caused By Unpaid AT&T Bill An extended outage on the Clipper card system that became a major point of frustration for BART riders last month appears to have been caused by an account being shut off due to an unpaid bill.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Richmond Apartment Sees 90% Rent Hike The latest governor's race numbers still have Steyer trailing; SF firefighter Ken Jones has lost his cancer battle, after his drawn-out battle with Blue Shield; and a Richmond couple says their new landlord is hiking their rent 90%.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Charges Filed Against Cop-Shooting Suspect The San Francisco DA has filed a litany of felony charges against the Oakland man suspected of shooting and injuring an SFPD officer; a body was found at a Waste Management facility in San Leandro; and BART's new fare gates are getting ads.
Arts & Entertainment An Ariana Grande Pop-Up Merch Shop Opens Thursday on Powell Street Ahead of her three shows at Oakaland Arena this weekend and next week, pop singer Ariana Grande and her team have opened a pop-up merch shop in Union Square, which will be open for the next week.
SF Politics Chakrabarti Concedes Race for SF's Congressional Seat Saikat Chakrabarti is the subject of many headlines today calling out the massive amount of personal money he spent coming in a distant third in Tuesday's primary for California's District 11 House seat. And rather than wait for more numbers to come in, he is bowing out of the race today.
SF Politics SF Election Turnout Looking Historically Low, and Why Does No One Vote on Election Day Anymore? Mid-year special elections and primaries aren't often huge draws when it comes to voter turnout, but San Francisco has a major decision to make about a Congressional seat that could be held by the same person for decades. Was that not enough of a motivator?
SF News Pair of Significant Early Morning Earthquakes Strike Off NorCal Coast There were two earthquakes early Wednesday morning with magnitudes over 5.0 that rumbled under the Pacific Ocean off the Northern California coast.
SF Politics [Updated] Wiener and Chan Are Headed to the November Ballot For SF's Congressional Seat We will still be getting updated vote counts over the coming days and the final tally is not yet in, but as of election night, state Senator Scott Wiener and SF Supervisor Connie Chan were in solid first and second places in the race to succeed Nancy Pelosi.
SF News Post-Election Headlines: Governor's Race Too Close to Call Becerra and Hilton hold the leads in the governor's race but Steyer may still be alive with millions of votes still to count; SF's props C and D both look to be failing; and incumbent supervisors Alan Wong and Stephen Sherrill hold solid leads so far in their ranked-choice contests.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Benu Alum Plans Korean Comfort-Food Restaurant on Oakland's Piedmont Ave A restaurateur with several recent hits under his belt has teamed up with a chef with SF fine dining cred to open a new Oakland restaurant focused on Korean comfort food and home-style cooking.
SF News Sonoma Couple Says They Were Conned Out of $28K In 'Courier Scam' Sonoma County authorities want the public, especially the elderly, to be aware of a spate of scams involving couriers and demands for cash withdrawals under false pretenses. But in one recent case, an arrest has been made.
SF Politics Will Mayor Daniel Lurie Keep or Lose Allies In Today's Supervisor Special Elections? In addition to the two bigger primary fights on the ballot today in San Francisco, for governor and for Nancy Pelosi's Congressional seat, two moderate incumbent SF supervisors are fighting to hold on to their seats.
SF News Injured SFPD Officer and Arrested Suspect In Sunday Shooting Both Identified The San Francisco police officer who was critically injured Sunday in the line of duty has been identified, and so has the suspect who allegedly shot at police, who is a convicted felon out on parole.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Early Voting Turnout Is at Just 17% In CA Early voting turnout is at a fairly low 17%, but a surge of ballots is expected; Los Gatos is flying its first-ever Pride Flag on the town square; and a Senate bill seeks to limit how the military can use AI.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Team Australia Arrives In Bay Ahead of World Cup Team Australia has landed in the Bay, which will be its training home base for the World Cup; Adam Sandler and his wife took in a Valkyries game on Saturday; and Florida is now suing OpenAI.
SF Politics Mayor Lurie Says Most Layoffs Have Now Been Avoided In New Proposed Budget Similar to what happened last year, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie had City Hall workers with an announcement about sweeping layoffs, only to later announce far fewer layoffs would actually be occurring.
Business & Tech Like OpenAI, Anthropic Makes SEC Filing Ahead of Possible IPO Days after Anthropic saw its valuation soar past competitor OpenAI, the company has made a confidential filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission in preparation for a possible IPO.
SF Politics Chakrabarti Campaign Tries to Amplify Pro-Israel PAC's Indirect Link to Connie Chan as Primary Race Tightens There appears to have been some last-minute maneuvers happening over the weekend by supporters of Saikat Chakrabarti, and Chakrabarti himself, in an effort to tie Connie Chan to a political action committee that is pro-Israel.
SF News Robbery Suspect and SFPD Officer Both Shot and Wounded In Gunfight In SF's Bayview District A shootout between SFPD officers and a pair of robbery suspects Sunday night left both an officer and one of the suspects critically wounded, and the second suspect was arrested.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Elderly Alameda Woman Attacked By Wild Turkeys A new poll shows the race tightening for California governor and Steyer surging past Hilton; three people were shot early Sunday in San Jose; and an 83-year-old Alameda woman was attacked by a pair of wild turkeys.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In Food: Get Ready for Asia Live Asia Live is debuting next week in Santa Clara, Jules gets a boost from the New York Times, Saluhall loses its last original vendor, and Oakland gets a new queer bar, all in This Week in Food.
